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SCHOOL-ROOM DIRQEC:

TORY ANDQ BULLETIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,384, dated February 1, 1898.

Application filed April 19, 1897 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES S. MO OLUNG, of Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved School-Room Directory and Bulletin, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

The object of my invention is to provide a directory or a bulletin especially adapted for use in schools, being particularly serviceable in promoting the subject of child-study.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bulletin or school-directory upon which the pedigree, the age, and general school-history of every child in the class will be recorded in such ,manner as to be readily accessible, the arrangement being such that the principal or superintendent of the school may enter a class-room and investigate thehistory of any one or more of the pupils in the class without disturbing the teacher or the The invention consists in the novel conparts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved bulletin or directory. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3is'a view of one face of an individual card adapted to be carried by the bulletin or directory. Fig. 4 is a view of the opposite face of the card shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is an elevation of atabulated record adapted to be attached also to the bulletin or directory.

Thebody of the bulletin consists, preferably, of a metal plate A of suitable dimensions, which plate is struck up at regular in tervals in a manner to form clips 10. These clips are arranged in transverse and vertical rows, and, as shown in Fig. 2, each clip comprises two members, which are brought together in a manner to hold between them a card B. A card Bis employed for each clip, and, as shown in Fig. 3, upon one face of each card places are made for a number, a name, the age of the pupil, the grade, and the date of entrance, and places for the name and ad- Serial No. 632,816. (No model.)

dress of the parent or guardian, while upon the opposite side of the information-card, as-

shown in Fig. 4, the nature or condition of the sight and hearing is to be recorded and likewise the character of the diseases from A of the bulletin is likewise struck up, so as to form lips 11 at the back of the sheet or body of the bulletin, as shown in Fig. 2, and these lips are adapted to hold in position on the back of the bulletin a tabulated record 0, as shown in Fig. 5. The rows of clips are numbered both ways for convenience in lo eating a pupil. This tabulated record is divided into two sections-namely, a directorysection 12 and a record-section 13. The di- "rectory-section is of less dimensions than the record-section, and the said directory-section is usually divided into four or more columns 14, 15, 16, and 17. The column 14, which is the first column, is headed by the word Names, and above by the words Year beginning. The next column has the words Remarks and School as a caption. The column 16is headed by the words Ending, Grade, Names, and the last column 17 has as a caption the'words Teacher, Remarks. The first-column 14 is prefixed by a smaller column 18, headed by the abbreviation No, and a similar column 19 is made to intervene the intermediate wider columns 15 and 16 and is headed by the abbreviation (NO-77 are lined in like manner.

The record panel or section 0 of the tabulated record-sheet isprovided with longitudinal and transverse lines except at that portion which is adjacent to the directory-section. Between these two sections various panels are formed-for example, a panel 20, marked N 0., which corresponds to the column-18 of the directory-section, a second panel 21, marked Age, and a third panel 22, marked Grade, these panels being ordinarily longitudinally located. Next to the longitudinal panel,n1arked Grade, a transverse panel 23 is formed, which bears the words Sight, Hearing, Entered. Beneath the word Sight the letters R 'L either side without turning. The body-sheet All of the columns above mentioned 1 appear, reading for Right, Left. Beneath the word Hearing the same letters appear, and beneath the Word Entered the letters M D are produced, standing for Month, Date. Adjacent to the horizontal panel 23 a number of panels 24 of the same character is produced, each bearing a name of a month, together with the words Times, Standing, and beneath the Word Times the letters A T appear, signifying Absent, Tardy.

The tabulated record is folded so that the directory-section will be carried over the rec'- ord-section, and the number of the names in the directory-section will be duplicated in the number-column of the record-section, and as the directory-section is folded back of the record-section and the record-section is at the back of the body of the bulletin, being held by the lips 11, a student that may attempt to study the bulletin will not be able to ascertain his or her standing, since no names appear, but simply numbers. The principal or superintendent, however, when making an examination, will remove the tabulated rec- 0rd entirely from the bulletin and can therefore make a comparison of the progress of the different pupils or study the standing or record of any particular one.

It is evident the position of a pupils card may be changed upon the bulletin whenever the order of seating is changed without rewriting the card. It is also evident that the chart, directory, or bulletin may be hung in a room or placed upon a teachers desk or" placed in any position without displacing the cards.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Abulletin-board or directory forschools and similar purposes, provided with a series of clips upon one face adapted to hold information-cards and with clips upon its opposing face, and a record-sheet removably held by said clips to said board.

2. A bulletin or directory for school and other purposes, consisting of a board or plate provided with a series of clips upon one of its faces, information-cards located within the said clips, both faces of the cards being readable without detachment from the clips, and a tabulated card secured to the said board or plate at the back, the said tabulated card containing information as to the school-history and physical condition of the pupils named upon the information-cards, substantially as shown and described.

3. A school bulletin or directory consisting of a plate or board provided with clips upon one of its faces, information-cards located within the said clips, each containing the name of a pupil and information regarding the same, and a tabulated card constructed in two sections, a directory-section and a record-section,the directory-section being folded upon the record-section and the folded tabulated card being attached to the back of the bulletin, the directory-section containing information relative to the names of the pupils, numbers corresponding thereto and other class information, the record-section containing information relative to the age, grade, sight, hearing, entrance, attendance and standing of the various pupils named upon the information-cards and designated by the same number as the numbers of the names on the directory-section of the tabulated card, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with a plate or board having clips formed upon the front face thereof, of information-cards adapted to be received by said clips, the said cards having on one face a space for the name, age, grade, date of entrance of the pupil, and the name and address of the parent or guardian of said pupil, and upon its opposing face a record of the physical condition of the pupil on entera ing the term of school, and a record-card removably secured upon the obverse side of the board, arranged to present a digest of the record of pupils named upon the informationcards.

JAMES S. MOCLUNG.

Witnesses:

R. O. IRWIN, MINNIE E. WooDs. 

